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The Frostburg Spirit SUCCESSOR TO ask Mining^PJournal. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. P. L. Livengood, Editor and Owner SUBSCRIPTION HATES : One Year $1.60 Six Months 75c Ten Months $1.25 Four Months 50c Eight Months SI.OO Two Months 25c Single Copies, at the office 3c; by mail 5c A discount of 25 cents given to all who pay a full year’s subscription in advance. AnVEMTISING MATES: Transient advertising, other than political, legal or local, 15 cents per inch each insertion. Political advertising rates made known on application. Legal advertising at legal rates. & Display advertisements to run four inser tions or more, 10 cents per inch each insertion, except for advertisements not exceeding 3 inches, on which the rate is cents per inch. Business Locals, “Wanted,” “For Sale,” “Lost,” “Found,” and miscellaneous notices, 6 cents per line. Resolutions of Respect, 5 cents per line. Cards of x Thanks, 10 cents per line. Free to patrons of The Spirit. Advertising copy must be received no later than 3 p. m., Tuesday, to insure publication same week. No advertisement accepted for less than 25 cents, and nothing of a money-making charac ter will be advertised in The Spirit’s columns free of charge. FROSTBURG, MD. - - NOV. 20, 1913 ts THE SPIRIT MOVETH ] BEER is not quite as high yet as when the cow jumped over the moon, but it’s not far from it. The pure food laws protect our stomachs, but the preservation of our souls is subject to no legislation. “Money makes the mare go,” but it still lacks the quality of keeping the automobile from breaking down on a long run. A NEW problem is liable to confront the newly-weds, et al. within the next few years. They will have to learn to distinguish between the buzzing of the aeroplane propellers and the hum ming of the stork’s wings at their chimney-tops. The Eleventh commandment, ac cording to the gospel by Peter: Thou shalt love the home paper with all thy heart and soul, pay thy subscrip tion promptly and tell thy borrowing neighbor to subscribe for the paper himself, and cease being a sponger. Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was classed as rotten, for wool had not a chance at all, with the market filled with cotton. But here’s another version: Mary had a little lamb, she sold it to a glutton; but the buyer backed out on the deal, at the present price of mutton. What a lot of lovely girls we have in Frostburg! There’s the tall girl, the short girl, the girl that’s stout and fat; the lean girl, the green girl, and the girl that’s mostly hat, But most of them are handsome girls— pretty, modest, wise; but yet, at times we notice some who make “dem goo goo eyes.” “Despite the extremely high prices, ” remarked a man to the editor of this paper, several days ago, “it may be safely assumed that the editor of The Spirit is Eivengood.” This is a sam ple of what we have been forced to hear ever since we entered this world. The funny men are bound to have their fling at our expense, even to the inclusion of our sacred patronymic. Quite a number of our patrons called at The Spirit office since last Thursday and listened to the nerve racking and deafening din overhead. One good citizen said : “I wouldn’t do business in a place like this ten min utes.” We wouldn’t either, brother, if we wouldn’t have to, but never mind, there’s a better day coming. A suit able place for a priiit shop will be se cured later> and then there’ll be some thing doing along newspaper and printing lines in Frostburg on the pike. Don’t be a “beat,” but buy the the sheet that’s printed on Mechanic street. Don’t squeeze a dollar till the eagle does “holler,” nor use a wart to button your collar. It’s not the caper to borrow the paper and be a grasping penny-scraper. Bet it not be said when you are dead that you never paid for the papers you read, for if that’s the case when you’ve quit life’s race, an epitaph like this the world may face : “Here was planted a miser from Frostburg town, who went to the place where the}' roast them brown. The more papers he bor rowed, the more he craved, and no such spongers can ever be saved,” And this is no pipe dream, either. Some people in this town, even in this enlightened age, are still argu ing in favor of hog-raising in this big andgrowing “burg.” Well,the hogpen in town may be a thing of beauty and a joy forever to some people, but our own sentiments run something like this: Heed not the cry for the old pig sty, but out on the farms let the pork ers die. This town is too big- for the smell of the pig,too large for the squeal of the hog; but like many a town, we might gain some renown by raising the doggone dog. Bologma quite fine can be made from canine, likewise from the yowling old cats; and we’ll “bust” the meat trust, when “bust” it we must, with canines’ felines and rats. These need not be fed, are easily bred, and about every one should be knocked on the head. Man is the only animal that walks on his hind legs and eats the various kinds of stuff called breakfast food, which in reality is no food at all. Most of it is nothing, and a very poor quality of that. But man is a queer animal, to say the least. He sits in his office, tipped back in his chair, and smokes his cigar with a satisfied air; he’s at home long enough to swal low his meals, and he grumbles and tells how “rocky” he feels, or sits on the street on a roll of barbwire, and tells how the tariff is making things higher; then he bites off a chew and spits and looks wise, while his wife puts up screens to keep out the flies; he growls when it’s fair, and whines when it rains, he growls at the mails, and he growls at the trains, while his good wife at home is breaking her back, with scissors and patterns and an old flour sack, making pants for the “kids,” while he takes his ease, and making them warm enough so they won’t freeze, with XXX Roller Process,” so gorgeous and quaint, on the bosom thereof in radiant paint. To eke out a living she’ll do all she can, but she wouldn’t, you bet, if she were a man. A GOOD MOVEMENT. Steps to Be Takea to Orgaaize a . Pareats’ Club. The Spirit knows of nothing that could accomplish more good for the general welfare of education in Frost burg than a parents’ club, to co-oper ate with teachers and pupils of the public schools, and we are glad to note that a movement is on foot to form an organization of that kind. Anything that will bring parents, teachers and pupils in closer touch with each other is bound to result in much benefit, not only to the schools, but also to the homes. The faculty and friends of Beall High School have projected a meet ing for Friday evening, 21st inst., in Assembly Hall of the school edifice, to discuss the advantages of organiz ing a club of that kind. If the plans for organization seem strong enough, and time permits, the nucleus of a club will be established then and there. Co-operating, teacher and parent, would consider more than the mere educational phase, but health con ditions, physical defects and other possible obstructions to advancement would come in for study and treat ment. Prof. John E. Edwards, Superin tendent of the county schools will ad dress the meeting and give both teachers and parents the benefit of a long and matured experience. Aided by a number of pupils, Miss Eena G. Roling, County Superintend ent of the primary schools, will give some interesting demonstrations in her department. Several musical and literary selec tions will also be rendered. Writing on this topic, Editor, J. B. Oder, makes the following appropri ate remarks in the Evening Times: It is hardly necessary, probably, to urge teachers to attend, as they will be there unanimosly, but parents are urged to go, hear and join the club. Next to the pupils, they are most in terested, and it is their duty—an in escapable obligation due their little ones, to utilize this opportunity to en ter a field wherein they can system atically bring to fruition the best hopes they have reposed in those who ere long are lo take their places in the march of human progress. New Telegraph Office. The Postal Telegraph and Cable Co. has opened a Frostburg office in the G. E. Pearce drug store, taking the place of the Western Union tele graph office which was recently moved from Pearce’s store to the second floor of the Shea building. With offices of two great telegraph and cable companies handling a big lot of business in Frostburg, there is even hope of our good old town becoming a seaport. Anyway, Frostburg is easily the best town in Allegany county. W. C. T. U. Meeting. A public meeting is announced un der the auspices of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, to be held at Grace M. E. Church, South, on Nov. 30th. An interesting program is being prepared which will be an nounced later. Athletic Association Elects Managers. The Beall High School Athletic As sociation recently met in the school’s assembly hall and elected managers for the boys’ and girls’ basketball teams. The meeting was called to order by President John Watson, who was elected manager of the boys’ team, and Miss Elanor Smyth was chosen manager of the girls’ team. Both teams are getting into good play ing trim, and some high-class games will surely result. Glasgow’s Pavements. According to an excellent custom in Glasgow, before any street is paved or repaved all city departments that may be likely to open the street are communicated with so as to give them an opportunity to examine their pipes or make necessary repairs, alterations or renewals before the paving is laid. —Chicago News. While There’s Life— Mrs. Matchem—Forty years old. Mr. Singleton, and never been married. Dear me! But surely you have not given up all hope? Singleton—No, in deed! I hope 1 am safe for another forty years, anyway.—Boston Tran script All Sorts. First Diner—Bet me see. I think FU order some lamb. Second Diner— Don’t! I never order lamb in this place; it’s mutton before you get it— Boston Transcript FATHER OF PHRENOLOGY. Dr. Gall at One Time Had the Whole of Europe In a Furore. The first public notice of the “Father of Phrenology” appeared in Weiland’s “Dutch Mercury” on Aug. 14, 1798. Gall was a practicing physician of Vienna, and early in his career he be came a firm believer in the idea that the talents and disposition of men are dependent upon the functions of tiie brain and, furthermore, that they may be inferred with perfect exactitude and precision from the external ap pearances of the skull. Gall was an able man. He set forth his theory in a graphic, unctuous man ner, and in a very brief period he had all Europe at the top notch of excite ment. The idea spread like wildfire, and in all grades of society people were discussing “the greatest of all discoveries.”'' The n'ew theory had to meet the customary opposition from the custodians of truth and the pre servers of morality, but the opposition only increased the popularity of the theory, and Gall’s celebrity increased by leaps and bounds. His lectures were interdicted, and he was threaten ed with the direst penalties unless he ceased his “immoral and atheistical” teachings, but he kept on with his propaganda, visiting all the large towns of Germany and the continent, and by 1805 all of Europe was interested in the Vienna doctor. In 1828, the year of Gall’s death, phrenology was in vogue everywhere. But after a great and glorious flood tide of popularity it began to wane, and today it is but seldom heard of.— New York American. BANISH THE RATS. They Are Not Only Disease Carriers, but Thieves as Well. Almost unbelievable are some of the things done by the rat—the squealing, filthy, gluttunous all pervading, all destroying brown rat. Rats.offen gnaw the hoofs of horses until the blood comes. They have been known to at tack fat hogs and eat holes in their bodies, causing death. They will fight human beings if cornered. They often steal valuable articles to use in build ing nests. The following were found in a sin gle nest: Three bedroom towels, two serviettes, five dust cloths, two pairs of linen knickerbockers, six linen pock et handkerchiefs and one silk handker chief. This same rat, which was a model of industry and thrift, had car ried away and stored near its nest a pound and a half of sugar, a pudding, a stalk of celery, a beet, carrots, tur nips and potatoes. In. the last dozen years over 5,000,- 000 human beings have died of plague In India alone. The India plague com mission, after careful inquiry, found that bubonic plague in man is entirely dependent on the disease in the rat! Marvelous in its destructiveness is the common house mouse, closely re lated to the rat, and, like it, imported from Europe. The field mouse, too, is highly destructive, the most destruc tive to agriculture of all the rodents.— Farm and Fireside. • Paternal Germany. A government, says a writer in the Twentieth Century Magazine, which tells you how to carry your umbrella, which forbids ladies who wear long hatpins to enter railway trains, which fines you if you throw cigar stubs or papers on the street, which does not permit your children to make a noise so that others are disturbed—such a government does restrict individual lib erty, but just as certainly it enlarges the common liberties and pleasure of everybody. The government thus eu logized is that of Germany, which the writer quoted prefers to our “go-as you-please” system. Hard on the Lawyer. Sir William Jones was receiving a visit from Mr. Day, a man of some note at that time. During a conversa tion Sir William moved a book from its place, and a large spider dropped to the ground. "Kill that spider, Day! Kill that spider I” cried tne great scholar. “No,” said Mr. Day, “I will not kill that spider, Jones. I don’t know that I have a right to kill that spider. Sup pose now that you were going down to Westminster hall in your carriage and some superior being, who might have as much power over you as you have over this spider, should call out: ’Kill thqt lawyer! Kill that lawyer!’ How should you like that, Jones? And I am sure that to most people a lawyer Is a more noxious creature than a spider.” '' Why Is It? That a legless man can “put his foot in it?” That persons who are “consumed by curiosity” still survive? That frequently a sinking fund is used to meet a floating debt? That straining the voice is not the proper way to make it clearer? That we speak of a stream running dry when the only way it can run is wet? That wives should expect their hus bands to foot the bills without kicking? That we talk of some one “going straight to the devil” when he has to be crooked to go there?—Boston Tran script , Two Things Distinguish Men. The essential things which distin guish one person from another, which give one man a higher place and an other a lower, are just two. First of all, perseverance—the ability to keep everlastingly at it and second, imagination or vision—the ability to see beyond the present and to under stand that the work at hand reaches beyond the present moment and so is worth while. —St Nicholas. Tidy to the Last. In “Glimpses of the Past” Miss Eliz abeth Wordsworth tells this story: One stormy day a fishing smack was wrecked and fast sinking. When the skipper came on deck he found the mate busy swabbing. “What’s the use of that. Jack? Don’t you see she's sinking?” “Yes, master, I know it; but, for all that, I’d like the old gal to go down clean and tidy.” THE FROSTBURG SPIRIT, FROSTBURG, MD. Cheap Paint The cheapest paint is the one that goes farthest and wears best; there is most in a gallon of it. What is a quart of milk worth? De pends on the milk. So of paint; depends on the paint. Devoe is worth the top price, what ever it is. Poor paint is worth nothing at all; you’ve got to pay your painter $3 or $4 a gallon for putting it on; and it isn’t worth it. Devoe goes twice as far and wears twice or three times or four times as long. The cheap paint is Devoe at the top of the market. DEVOE J. W. Shea, Agent. sells it. Advertisement First M. E. Church Services Sun day, November 23rd. 9 A. M., class meeting; 10 A. M., Sunday school; 11 A. M., sermon by the pastor; 6:45 P. M., Epworth Beague; 7:30 P. M., sermon by the pastor. Dr. D. H. Martin, Pastor. Don’t Be a Sponger. Subscribe for The Spirit instead of borrowing your neighbor’s copy. tf. Frostburg Opera House Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 27, 28, 29. THURSDAY Special Thanksgivigti Matinee. Bristors Equine Wonders 15 of the World’s Greatest Perform ing Ponies. Lillie Langtree in a tense dramatic play “His Neighbor’s Wife” Mary Fuller in the fourth story of “Who Will Marry Mary” Friday and Saturday Bristol’s Ponies and Three Fine Reels. THURSDAY, Matinee, 10c and 20c. Night, 15c and 20c. Friday and Saturday, 10c and 20c. FOR THE BEST Fire Insurance IN THE WORLD 12-25-pd Apply to J. B. ODER. Let Us Dry-Steam Clean and Press Your Coat, Pants and Test! We do not drive the dirt into the lining of the goods, but force it from the inside out. This process is strictly sanitary. It removes all dirt, raises the nap, renders the garment sterilized like new and not shrink a thread. Tadics’ Coats, Jackets, Skirts, Etc., receive special attention! Shall we call for your next package ? FROSTBURG STEAM LAUNDRY A. S. BURTON, Proprietor. Poultry, Pigeons, Butter, Eggs, Produce, Poultry and Stock Supplies. Have a limited number of “The Poultrymen’s Complete Hand Book, What to Do and How to Do It,” to be given free with purchases of Pratt’s Products. ,‘No-Fly” is guaranteed to keep flies away. Phone 289 k. THOMAS L. POPP, 8 S. Water St., Opp. Postoffice, Frostburg, Md. Executor’s Notice THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the sub scriber has obtained from the Orphans’ Court of Allegany County, Maryland, letters testamentary on the estate of Michael Yenshaw, late of Allegany County, Maryland, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof duly authenticated, to the subscriber on or before the Ist day of January, 1914. They may Otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said es tate. All persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment. Given under my hand this 6th day of November, 1913. THOMAS GATEHOUSE, Executor. 11—6 11—20 Cumberland and Westernport Electric Railway. TIME TABLE. First car leaves Frostburg for Cumberland at 6:00 a. m., Eckhart 6:12, Clarysville 6;19, Red Hill 6:24, Long’s 6:30, Narrows Park 6:40, arriv ing at Baltimore street, Cumberland, at 7:00 a. m. Car leaves Frostburg every hour after wards for Cumberland (on the hour) last car leaving Frostburg at 11:00 o’clock p. m. First car leaves Baltimore street, Cumber land, for Frostburg at 7:00 a. m , Narrows Park 7;20, Long’s 7:30, Red Hill 7:36, Clarysville 7:41, Eckhart 7:48, arriving at Frostburg at 8:00 a. m. Car leaves Cumberland*every hour afterwards for Frostburg (on the hour) last car leaving Cumberland at 12:00 o’clock midnight. First ear leaves Frostburg for Westernport at 5:00 a. m., Borden Shaft 5;12, Blake’s 5:23, Midland 5:30, Lonaconmg 5:47, Moscow 6:00, Barton 6:08, Reynolds 6:13, Franklin 6:29, West ernport 6:30. Car leaves Frostburg every hour (on the hour) last car leaving Frostburg for Westernport at 11:00 o’clock p. m. Last car leaves Frostburg for Lonaconing at 12;00 o’clock midnight, arriving at Lonaconing 12:47 a. m., returning leaves Lonaconing 12:50 a. m., arriving at Frostburg 1:30 a. m. First car leaves Westernport for Frostburg at 5:30 a. m., Franklin 5:40, Reynolds 5:47, Bar ton 5:52, Moscow 6:00, Lonaconing 6:12, Midland 6:30, Blake’s 6:37, Borden Shaft 6:48, Frostburg 7:00. Car lerves, Westernport every hour after wards for Frostburg, last car leaving Western port at 11:30 p. m. for Frostburg. All cars east and west connect at Frostburg. J. E. TAYLOR, Superintendent. When in Meyersdale, stop at the New Slicer House GEORGE EOGUE, Proprietor. THOMAS GATEHOUSE, Justice of the Peace, 4 MECHANIC STREET, FROSTBURG, MD. All business entrusted to me is attended to promptly and satisfactorily. Dr. J. C. Pfeiffer, THE DENTIST, 7E. Union St. Frostburg, Md. PHOTOGRAPHER. ARTISTIC FRAMING. Oh Broadway, Frostburg, Md. Allegany Cemetery. 2200 LOTS. / Prices $9.00 to $22.50. perpetuae charter. J. B. Williams, secretary and treasurer. Office: C. & P. Phone: 60 E. Main Street. No. 52. FROSTBURG, MD. You Must* Not* Forget / If it is anything in the Jewelers’ line JEFFRIES BROS. HAVE IT! There is nothing too good for us to sell or anything too bad for us to repair. A satisfactory guarantee with everything JEFFRIES BROS. Frostburg’s Leading Jewelers and Opticians, 10 E. Union St. We give S. & H. Green Trading Stamps WM. ENGLE JAS. ENGLE Engle Meat Market DEALERS IN Live Stock and Dressed Meats Butter and Eggs Poultry In Season 66 EAST UNION STREET 17 WEST UNION STREET PUTNAM DYES ARE FADELESS Each package will color wool, silk, cotton and mix ed goods. Eor sale at our store at 10c per package. We are also sole agents for International Stock Food, put up in 25c ' and 50c packages and 25-pound pails. GRIFFITH BROS., Opposite Postoffice. Gone But Not Forgotten! 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